books.google.com - James C. Scott places the critical problem of the peasant household—subsistence—at the center of this study. The fear of food shortages, he argues persuasively, explains many otherwise puzzling technical, social, and moral arrangements in peasant society, such as resistance to innovation, the desire...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Moral_Economy_of_the_Peasant.html?id=qu5KUdN_rDkC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Moral Economy of the Peasant